Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour Quotes

BALFOUR, Mrs. Clara Lucas Quotes

(1808-1878), English temperance leader

Flowers

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers?—It would be a face without a smile; a feast without a welcome.—Are not flowers the stars of the earth?—And are not our stars the flowers of heaven?

Reproof

The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.